Sargis Muradyan

Biography Sargis Muradyan

Born on June 23, 1927 in Yerevan.
1943-1945: student of P. Terlemezyan Art School.
1945-1951: student of the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts.
1954: member of the Artists’ Union of Armenia.
1961: Honored Artist of Armenia.
1972: Honored Art Worker of Armenia.
Head of the delegation of artists, participants of the Decade of Soviet Art in Romania (1973) and Bulgaria (1975).
1976: State Prize of the USSR.
1976: commissary of the exhibition of Soviet Art in Iran.
1978: People’s Artist of Armenia.
1982-1987: president of the Artists’ Union of Armenia.
1986: associate member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts.
1985-1990: member of the Supreme Council of ArmSSR.
1990-1995: member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.
From 1961, lecturer (from 1981, professor) of the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts.
Died on July 12, 2007 in Yerevan